adaunt

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English adaunten, from Old French adanter, adonter, later addomter, from a- +‎ danter.

Verb

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adaunt (third-person singular simple present adaunts, present participle adaunting, simple past and past participle adaunted)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue.
    • 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 349, lines 1299, 1302–1304:
      He [] With myghty corrage
      Adauntid the rage
      Of a lyon savage; []

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